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THIS IS ROBERT TALKING . . . Or, the Dark Side of Etiquetteer :-)

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Christmas Vacation, Day Three

December 21, 2017

1) Up before 7 AM, good coffeezzzzzzzz, and read all of The Private Life of Tasha Tudor, which I gave Mother for Christmas several years ago.

2) Late morning trip to [Insert Name of Big Box Store Employing Younger Nephew Who Must Not Be Tagged] to purchase new router and do a bit of Christmas shopping.

3) Lunch at home, and a NAP, and more Christmas cards, and then Nephew arrived (on his birthday!) to install the new router. So I was very glad I could give him his birthday card in person for a change.

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4) Mother and I went out to S****** S**** for a good etouffé dinner. It's as warm and velvety humid as summer. I have to wonder if my growing-up years when we did have cold Christmases here were an anomaly.

5) The Christmas tree is now done!

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6) Mother, who is really unable to throw anything away without asking at least 20 people if they want it, led me to a little basket of unwanted trinkets and such on top of the washer. I was surprised to find myself claiming a necklace of coins for myself. Insert References to Brecht's Mother Courage Here.

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7) Mother also discovered a whole cache of Daddy's books that she didn't know about (but I did), mostly religious works around metaphysics or New Thought. But also books given to him at different Christmases: Anecdotes of Destiny, by Isak Dinesen, which Mother gave him one year because of Babette's Feast; Ricky Alan Mayotte's The Complete Jesus, which I gave him one year; and All About Me, which I also gave him (and which I don't think he ever opened).

8) Now that the internet is back on and I have full use of my laptop again, I can begin one of the more important tasks of this Christmas vacation: evaluating the many organizations that are sending Mother these constant waves of junk mail. They are keeping her from writing her book!

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